Sentences with phrase «by rural charter»

Challenges faced by rural charter schools — including barriers in human capital, transportation, and facilities.

Not exact matches

While the national, state, and metro area analysis comprised the bulk of our report, we did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

School districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in charters.

We did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

Once again the proposal was named the Betty L. Thompson Scholarship Program, but this time they eliminated the rural districts in hopes of getting the additional nine votes, the strategy used by the successful charter school coalition, according to Rep. Hoskins.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

One finds little variation in the degree of satisfaction with charter schools by region: across the country, more than 60 percent of parents in urban, suburban, and rural communities say they are very satisfied with the charter school that their child is attending.

State policymakers should provide rural charters with the flexibility to innovate with digital learning and engage with them in developing policies informed by practice.

But the core of chartering, and its relevance to rural areas, remains: to remove regulatory and legal barriers to innovation while retaining oversight by citizens and elected officials.

In a report released by Bellwether Education Partners, Andy Smarick examines the state policies that can hinder or foster the growth of rural charter schools and argues for a new approach to charter schooling in rural America — one that's prudent and respectful of the unique characteristics of rural communities but more open to charter growth than in the past.

And Bellwether Education Partners has released a new report by Andy Smarick on state policies that affect rural charter schools.

Stronger charter school laws can help meet rural students» needs by allowing communities to innovate in ways that traditional districts can not because of regulatory constraints on hiring, spending, allocation of time, and class offerings.

Still, the schools have been draining funds from rural districts, and have been quickly endorsed by DeVos as the option for rural students who may not have access to private institutions or brick - and - mortar charter schools.

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Our growth over the past decade has been propelled by educators and parents who are themselves opening their own charters in both urban and rural areas because they believe charters will provide their children with better educational outcomes.

Midway through my second year on the board, I was approached by a group of parents who aspired to develop a charter school in their rural community.

They found a new frontier — for rural charter schools — based on «the fantastic work done by charter management organizations» and «human capital organizations» like The New Teacher Project.....

FROM A New Frontier: Utilizing Charter Schools to Strengthen Rural Education by Andy Smarick http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED553987.pdf

However, different disaggregations (by charter type, urban - rural, grade level and region) show varying sizes in the gap (with the gap closed in some instances).